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Mad princes of Renaissance Germany
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ISBN: 0813915007 Year: 1994 Volume: *1 Publisher: Charlottesville, Va University Press of Virginia

A history of madness in sixteenth-centruy Germany.
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ISBN: 0804733341 0804741697 9780804733342 9780804741699 Year: 1999 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.) Stanford university press

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"This work explores how Renaissance Germans understood and experienced madness. It focuses on the insanity of the world in general but also on specific disorders; examines the thinking on madness of theologians, jurists, and physicians; and analyzes the vernacular ideas that propelled sufferers to seek help in pilgrimage or newly founded hospitals for the helplessly disordered. In the process, the author uses the history of madness as a lens to illuminate the history of the Renaissance, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the history of poverty and social welfare, and the history of princely courts, state building, and the civilizing process."--Jacket.

Exorcism and enlightenment : Johann Joseph Gassner and the demons of eighteenth-century Germany.
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ISBN: 0300106696 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) Yale university press

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In the late eighteenth century, Catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner (1727& 1779) discovered that he had extraordinary powers of exorcism. Deciding that demons were responsible for most human ailments, he healed thousands, rich and poor, Protestant and Catholic. In this book H. C. Erik Midelfort delves deeply into records of the time to explore Gassner's remarkable exorcising campaign, chronicle the official efforts to curb him, and reconstruct the sufferings of the afflicted. Gassner's activities triggered a Catholic religious revival as well as a noisy skeptical reaction. In response to those who doubted that he was really casting out demons, Gassner marshaled hundreds of eyewitness reports that seemed to prove his exorcisms really worked. Midelfort describes the enormous public controversy that resulted, and he demonstrates that the Gassner episode yields important insights into the German Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, the limitations of eighteenth-century debate, and the ongoing role of magic and belief in an age of scientific enlightenment.


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Witchcraft, madness, society, and religion in early modern Germany : a ship of fools
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ISBN: 9781409457336 Year: 2013 Volume: 1029 Publisher: Farnham Ashgate Variorum

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Exorcism and Enlightenment
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ISBN: 1281722359 9786611722357 0300130139 9780300130133 0300106696 9780300106695 9781281722355 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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In the late eighteenth century, Catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner (1727-1779) discovered that he had extraordinary powers of exorcism. Deciding that demons were responsible for most human ailments, he healed thousands, rich and poor, Protestant and Catholic. In this book H. C. Erik Midelfort delves deeply into records of the time to explore Gassner's remarkable exorcising campaign, chronicle the official efforts to curb him, and reconstruct the sufferings of the afflicted. Gassner's activities triggered a Catholic religious revival as well as a noisy skeptical reaction. In response to those who doubted that he was really casting out demons, Gassner marshaled hundreds of eyewitness reports that seemed to prove his exorcisms really worked. Midelfort describes the enormous public controversy that resulted, and he demonstrates that the Gassner episode yields important insights into the German Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, the limitations of eighteenth-century debate, and the ongoing role of magic and belief in an age of scientific enlightenment.

Witch hunting in southwestern Germany : 1562-1684 : the social and intellectual foundations
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ISBN: 9780804708050 0804708053 Year: 1972 Publisher: Stanford: Stanford university press,

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Witch hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684: the social and intellectual foundations
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Johann Weyer and the transformation in the insanity defense

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Enlightenment Underground : Radical Germany, 1680-1720
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ISBN: 9780813938158 0813938155 9780813938165 0813938163 9780813938165 0813938155 Year: 2015 Publisher: Charlottesville University of Virginia Press

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